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  Way too much

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 11/01/2016

  » Born and bred in the Big Apple, I was raised believing -- it was in my mother's milk -- that New York is the centre of the universe. It has Times Square and Central Park, Broadway and Wall Street, the United Nations and the Empire State Building, Coney Island and two rivers, Greenwich Village and Nathan's hot dogs.

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  Fact or fiction?

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/02/2019

  » It is common knowledge that the KGB weren't above using sex in its spying activities. Books were written and movies made about it. What isn't generally known is that the Russian Federation's FSB are not only continuing the practice but expanding it.

• LIFE

  Action-packed

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/06/2018

  » When a popular author passes away, his/her estate seeks a replacement to keep generating income. Hopefully, one who can step into the shoes with nary a squeak. Alas, there have been more than a few squeaks and the replacement -- a competent scribe for the stories he's accustomed to writing -- is unable to make the change. The estate may try others with the same result.

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  A Cold War thriller

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/01/2017

  » The time was when visiting the USSR was difficult and leaving it impossible. Lenin and Stalin had built the ideal state and close contact with the outside world would only contaminate it. Until Hitler offered a deal they couldn't refuse -- to slice up Poland between them.

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  Roman Britain

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/03/2017

  » Ancient Rome's legions -- approximately 5,500 men each -- were rightly famed for their fighting skills. Overlooked is that they were more than warriors. Incomparable engineers, they built fortresses that still stand, and constructed roads and aqueducts.

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  First century AD

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/11/2016

  » The first century AD automatically brings to mind Jesus of Nazareth. The New Testament, thought to have been penned up to a century and a half later, told of his extraordinary birth, miracles and ascension to heaven. Two millennia later, circa a billion people believe it.

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  A crime-busting dog

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/11/2016

  » What is the most intelligent animal? Orangutans, dolphins and pigs are in competition for that honour. Yank author Robert Crais claims dogs. Training hones their natural skills. They have the advantage of hearing that is seven times sharper than man's, not to mention their sharp sense of smell.

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  The Cold War: Phase 2

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/04/2016

  » The implosion of the Soviet empire was greeted with a sigh of relief in democracies by all but the cloak-and-dagger novelists. Who would replace the Soviet Union as the common enemy? To be sure, terrorists are sinister, but they lack the cohesiveness that was a mark of the KGB.

• LIFE

  Use your grey matter

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/06/2016

  » When Descartes said "I think therefore I am", it couldn't be faulted. But that was centuries ago. In this age of technological, electronic and digital inventions, our thinking is done for us. Touch a button, tap a few keys, and the screen fills with information. Questions are answered, problems solved.

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  Informative read

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 11/05/2015

  » Theft has been prevalent in the animal kingdom since prehistoric times. Squirrels steal. Magpies steal. Monkeys steal. But Homo sapiens has added a new dimension to theft. We steal anything and everything, killing those trying to stop us.

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